The phrase "a prison transfer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of moving an inmate from one correctional facility to another.
Example: "The authorities announced a prison transfer for the inmate due to overcrowding in the current facility."
Alternatives: "inmate relocation" or "correctional transfer."
Yet this year, Sotomayor took the rare step of publicly opposing the court's decision not to hear the petition of a Louisiana prisoner who stopped taking his H.I.V. medication to protest a prison transfer and sued for being punished with hard labor in 100-degree heat.
Escaped in 1994 during a prison transfer.
The father of Lori Berenson, the American serving a 20-year sentence in Peru after being convicted of aiding a leftist rebel group, said yesterday that she had been sexually abused during a prison transfer last week.
I even drove past my house on a prison transfer!
In the second-season premiere of "Longmire," at 10, Sheriff Walt Longmire Robert Taylorr) deals with a hostage crisis resulting from a botched prison transfer.
Instead of a standard repatriation deal, which could mean Soering's release in Germany, this would have to be a repatriative prison transfer, in which he was moved from a cell in the U.S. to a cell in Germany.
Two days after the assassination, the Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby killed Mr. Oswald during a nationally televised prison transfer.
At issue is whether the prison transfer represented such a formal agreement, or simply a local immigration matter.
The biggest issue holding up the prison transfer was an American demand for veto power over whom the Afghans would release from Bagram, which the American military calls the Detention Facility in Parwan.
There is also a block on sending prisoners back to Poland until the end of 2016 as it has an exemption under the EU prison transfer agreement because of lack of capacity in its jails.
At issue is whether the prison transfer represented such a formal agreement.
